Here are the places in Asia you need to visit in 2023, according to The New York Times 

Several Asian locations have been included in The New York Times’ list of “52 Places to Go” for 2023. On Jan. 12, the Times released its ann...

Why Vietnam celebrates the Year of the Cat instead of the Rabbit

While most Asian countries and diasporas welcomed the Lunar New Year celebrating the rabbit, Vietnam, which observes the equivalent Tết Nguy...

Body of Vietnamese boy trapped in concrete pillar recovered weeks after he fell in

Before you read: 10-year-old boy trapped in pit in Vietnam no longer responding to rescuers 10-year-old boy stuck in deep pit in Vietnam dec...

Vietnam president resigns following blame for officials’ ‘wrongdoing’

Vietnam President Nguyen Xuan Phuc resigned on Tuesday after the Communist party found him responsible for the wrongdoings of junior officia...

Vietnamese university, military school deny sexual assault and suicide of female students during retreat

A university and a military school in Vietnam have denied rumors of sexual assault and suicide involving female students in mandatory traini...

10-year-old boy stuck in deep pit in Vietnam declared dead

Before you read: 10-year-old boy trapped in pit in Vietnam no longer responding to rescuers Ly Hao Nam, the 10-year-old who fell 115 feet i...

10-year-old boy trapped in pit in Vietnam no longer responding to rescuers

A 10-year-old boy who fell into a 10-inch-wide pit on New Year’s Eve while looking for scrap metal with his friends at a bridge construction...

Twitter users criticize list of top food destinations for ranking US over China, Thailand

Before you read: Gordon Ramsay names Laos and Vietnam as world’s top food destinations In food travel guide TasteAtlas’ most recent ra...

Oscars shortlist: All the Asian-led documentary features and shorts that made the cut

On Wednesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced their shortlist for ten categories, including Documentary Feature F...

Vietnamese film makes shortlist for Oscars Best Documentary for first time

Before you read: Pakistan, Cambodia, India, South Korea make 2023 Oscars international feature shortlist ...

Vietnamese EV automaker VinFast opens 4 new stores in California 

Before you read: Vietnamese EV automaker VinFast to open first 6 showrooms in US this week Vietnamese EV maker VinFast ships 999 cars for US...

This baby’s reaction to trying phở for the first time is the best food review of all time

Phở is often lauded as one of the world’s greatest foods, and for good reason. Vietnam’s national dish — traditionally consisting of bone br...

A remix of a Vietnamese pop hit has TikTok users dancing around the world

The viral “Ting Ting Tang Tang Tang” craze on TikTok uses a remixed version of the Vietnamese pop song “See Tình” by actress and singer Hoà...

Gordon Ramsay names Laos and Vietnam as world’s top food destinations

Gordon Ramsay named Laos and Vietnam as the world’s top food destinations in a recent interview. During a trip to Seoul, the 56-year-o...

Vietnamese EV maker VinFast files US IPO, selects T-Mobile as internet provider

Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast has filed for an initial public offering in the U.S. and selected T-Mobile as its connectivity pr...

Chinese tea, Vietnamese pottery, Cambodian martial arts: Asian cultural practices granted UNESCO world heritage status

Traditional Chinese tea-processing techniques, Japanese ritual dances and Vietnamese pottery-making are some of the cultural practices that...

French YouTuber says he felt ‘uncomfortable’ at Vietnamese wedding he crashed in viral video

In a now-deleted TikTok video, French content creator Alwin GC (@alwingc) crashes a Vietnamese wedding. Alwin makes sure to clarify that h...

A history of the Hmong kings

Vương Duy Bảo, a descendent of the Hmong king of Ha Giang and the legal representative of the Vương family, sued the provincial government f...

Renaming of University of Oxford college after Vietnamese billionaire ‘Madame Thao’ now ‘in doubt’

Last year, Linacre College announced that it would be changing its name to Thao College after Vietnam’s first and only woman billionaire af...

‘Little Women’ K-drama to be removed from Netflix in Vietnam over Vietnam War depiction

On October 6, the Vietnamese government requested the removal of K-drama “Little Women” from the country’s streaming platform. The content...

60 Vietnamese nationals collectively run for freedom from human traffickers in Cambodia

A group of 60 Vietnamese nationals collectively ran for freedom from a Cambodian casino where they were being exploited and held as prisone...

Vietnamese consulate receives ‘constant calls day and night’ by victims of human trafficking in Cambodia

The Vietnamese consulate in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, has been receiving dozens of rescue requests from victims of human trafficking on a da...

Vietnamese parents forced to buy back children as human trafficking crisis in Cambodia escalates

Chinese crime syndicates are believed to be behind the human trafficking operations in Cambodia that have targeted individuals from Southea...

Vietnam declares being gay ‘not an illness’ 32 years after WHO declassification of homosexuality as disease

Vietnam’s Ministry of Health declared homosexuality as “not a disease” in a directive to provincial and municipal health departments on Aug...

Huynh Nhu set to become first Vietnamese woman football player to join European team

Vietnamese football star Huynh Nhu traveled to Portugal on Monday in preparation for signing with Länk FC Vilaverdense, a Portuguese footba...

Organ donation in Vietnam becoming more accepted despite cultural taboo

The Vietnam National Coordinating Center for Human Organ Transplantation revealed that nearly 50,000 people have registered for organ donat...

Ho Chi Minh City resident becomes first Vietnamese woman to reach Mount Everest summit

Nguyễn Thị Thanh Nhã, who also goes by Céline Nha Nguyen, reached the summit of Mount Everest on Monday, becoming the first Vietnamese woma...

Vietnamese man sold his daughter, 13, to Chinese traffickers for $4,300 to pay for medical treatment

Lo Pho Pheng, a 47-year-old Vietnamese father, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for selling his 13-year-old daughter to human trafficker...

Vietnamese father spends $11,000 to convert old van into French wooden tank for his son

Truong Van Dao, a 31-year-old carpenter from Bac Ninh Province, east of Hanoi, spent three months and invested around $11,000 to convert an...

Video of Viet minister being fed $1,900 gold-leaf steak after visiting Karl Marx’s grave stirs anger

A viral video showing Vietnam’s minister of public security being served a gold-leaf steak by Turkish chef Nusret Gokce, aka “Salt Bae,” is ...

Vietnamese blogger jailed over government criticism warns family of ‘something bad’ before call is cut off

A Vietnamese blogger detained over anti-government posts has warned his family that “something bad” will have happened to him if they do not...

Report: Mark Zuckerberg personally approved censorship of Facebook posts critical of Vietnam’s government

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally bowed to the Vietnamese government’s demand that his company’s social media platform censor “anti-st...

Vietnamese woman dragged and physically forced to take COVID-19 test by authorities to sue

A Vietnamese woman will file a lawsuit against the Vietnamese government after she was physically forced by authorities to take a COVID-19 t...

Vietnamese health official resigns after backlash over drowning, burning of couple’s dogs due to COVID-19

A health official in Vietnam, who allegedly led the slaughter of COVID-19 patients’ pets, recently resigned after facing public outrage.  Pu...

‘Like Fook Yoo?’: Trump accused of making a racist joke about Vietnamese president’s name

In 2017, former President Donald Trump allegedly made a racist joke aimed at Vietnamese President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc, who served as prime mini...

Phi Nhung, Vietnamese American musical icon, passes away from COVID-19

On Tuesday, Vietnamese American singer Phi Nhung passed away after a month-long battle with COVID-19 at Cho Ray Hospital in Saigon. Heartbre...